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Show I OUTLINES FUTURE I OF DENVER CLUBS Denver, Colo. Dec. 31 The future of the Indianapolis ball club or the American association, the Sprinfiela. Ohio, club of the Central league, and the Denver club, pennant winners or the Western league, were generally outlined by J. C. Hendricks, at present pres-ent manager of the Denver team and who is to resign to take charge of the Indianapolis club. According to Hendrick3, probably all of the 25 playerB now on the Indianapolis roster ros-ter will be taken on the spring train- merit and after that 125.000 will be spent, ii necessary, in building up the team No Indianapolis players are to be ij brought to Denver, and no Denver I players will be transferred to Indi- anapolls, he said. In the words of Hendricks. Denver will have a strong nucleus for another championship team and nothing wculd be shared to place Indianapolis in the first division divi-sion of the association at least. The Springfield team Is tor sale, asserted Hendricks, who said. "We will have all we can do with the Indianapolis In-dianapolis and Denver clubs, and we can not be worried with a class D organization We will sell It to Springfield or any other bona fide purchaser " Manager Hendricks declared he was not worried by the reported inroad the Federal league was making in the Western league especially the Denver club, even though Several of the best Denver players were report ed to be negotiating with the Feder als He announced the purchase ry Denver of "one of Detroit's pood pitch era of last season," but would not name him. I |